#i am OVERWHELMED Taylor

[songwritingswift]

Head empty no thoughts

[atorturedpoetsquill]

I feel distant

Lately, I feel distant—from myself, my surroundings, my responsibilities, and my morals. It feels as though I don't belong here, in my place. It doesn't feel right. I have these recurring dreams.

Dreams about places where I see myself sitting on grass, rolling down hills, jumping around sprinklers, dancing in the rain, watching sunsets, collecting wildflowers, tending my garden, and sitting under a tree reading with my best friend.

Dreams about working as an English professor at a quintessential university, surrounded by academics, students, and literature.

Dreams about coming home to my beloved, watching him make dinner while I sit and stare in adoration with a glass of wine in hand, holding each other while dancing under dimmed lights to some jazz, acknowledging not having any idea of what we're doing but laughing about it because we are having fun.

Dreams about having a family, promising and assuring them every day that I love them, and that life is nothing without them.

Dreams about having a life of my own, free of the push and pull, free of living up to someone’s expectations, free of the feeling of not being good enough, of being left out, of loneliness, of the constant reminders that no one understands me or cares about my opinions. Free of being treated as a 19-year-old infant who cannot hold her neck up. A life where my dreams are just mine.

But lately, I feel distant—from my dreams. The fear creeps in like poison ivy covering the walls of abandoned dwellings. The fear of watching them fade into this hellhole of a life.

by Willow

[torchickentacos]

thanksgiving is over and it is now time to indulge in my favorite post-holiday pastime: sink hours into something mindless (art) for hours in peace and quiet and solitude after everyone goes home <3. I don't remember being this happy with art in a long time tbh

[jimmyjrsmusoems]

Soooo :D which bobs burgers characters do you think are potentially Swifties 👀👀? Gimme a list 🤌

you!!!!!! this is the best ask ever!!!!!! i put...an embarrassing amount of thought into this but i had so much fun doing it lol. thank you!!!!

okay i am going to sort these into categories :

definitely a swiftie

not a swiftie but respects taylor as an artist / likes a few songs

absolutely not a swiftie

definitely a swiftie :

TINA!!!! (definitely loves every album, but probably favors speak now and lover)

jocelyn (really favors pop taylor - 1989, lover, reputation, midnights, etc)

teddy (exclusively listens to debut until tina shows him the rest of her discography, really resonates with red tv)

gayle (discovered taylor through the movie "cats" like @airborneashes said lol)

susmita (probably favors folklore / evermore taylor but reputation is in her top 3 albums)

courtney (discovered taylor through midnights but quickly becomes obsessed with everything she's ever done)

becky krespe (a 1989 girlie through and through)

chloe barbash (has gone to every single tour, hosts listening parties when new albums are released, goes all out for her eras tour outfit)

mr. frond (literally had a religious experience the first time he listened to folklore)

ms. selbo (listened to high infidelity while she was stealing her ex's dog)

felix fischoeder (loves midnights, did not get eras tour tickets but fought in the ticketmaster trenches)

not a swiftie but respects taylor as an artist / likes a few songs :

boblin (they only know who she is because of tina and they don't listen to all of her music, but sometimes one of them will catch the other whistling shake it off or something lol)

gene (respects taylor heavily as an artist, she's just not his fave! he would absolutely lose his mind watching the reputation stadium tour movie with tina though)

logan bush (probably listened to her once to impress a girl, turns out he really resonates with reputation, makes his friends listen to getaway car just to prove that she's "not that bad")

tammy (loves welcome to new york, only listens to her with jocelyn though)

zeke and jimmy jr. (they listen to her at a sleepover just to see why tina likes her so much, they end up listening to at least four albums in one sitting, zeke is so moved by would've, could've, should've that he gets peter pescadero to restart the women's issues club with him)

mr. branca (his favorite song is karma)

darryl (thinks that taylor is hot, loses his mind every time don't blame me comes on)

absolutely not a swiftie :

louise (would go to her concert though, just for tina)

rudy (he just...doesn't seem like he would get her)

alex papasian (doesn't know who taylor swift is)

calvin fischoeder (bought a ton of tickets for the eras tour, but only so it would sell out and felix couldn't go)

edith (very judgmental about all of taylor's relationships, heard a snippet of dress once and nearly had a heart attack)

jimmy pesto (sided with k*nye)

[indeliblescarspivotalmarks]

live footage of me sat in my living room violently overwhelmed overstimulated and overswiftified unable to move because taylor alison swift woke up today and decided to cause havoc upon the world

[robinniko]

ttpd has me in shambles right now

[madamescarlette]

what if I make You're On Your Own, Kid the basis of my spiritual life for this season, what then?

[bybdolan]

what do you mean “cutting songs”? also i absolutely agree with what you said man how come you’re always right? lol

What I mean by that is that an album should work as a cohesive unit and ideally every song should bring something new or exciting to the table, add to the narrative, expand the universe, etc. When we look at the vault tracks for Fearless TV and Red TV for example (though to be fair, less with Red), there are a bunch of tracks on there that wouldn't have added anything to the album except weight and runtime. And a long runtime makes a record less memorable imo – rarely am I going to take time out of my day to listen to an album that is 2+ hours long. And Taylor is a GREAT album artist, no doubt. I just dislike the narrative that has sprung up that Taylor releasing vault tracks etc. is a sign that she is freeee from the shakles of Big Machine where evil man Scott B told her to cut all of those good songs >:( like. Scott B fucking sucks but having an editor on you who really brings out your strengths and teaches you to sharpen your skill and vision is not bad per se. (I don't think their particular relationship was healthy in that regard, but that's not shocking information.) Obviously this is in part due to the streaming era, but we still have artists who create albums™ and I hope Taylor remains one of them.

[gayfranzkafka]

(insane post incoming) okay i've been a taylor swift re-recordings hater since the beginning but the Speak Now re-recording is making me INSANE i think it's partially just that i'm having a weird time emotionally anyway but like "Timeless" made me TEAR UP like bro WHAT like something about it being soooo essentially of that era but new like the novelty of it BONKED me over the head with a reminder of what it felt like to hear all those songs off Speak Now for the first time when i just had this IDEA of what love was & hadn't actually experienced it yet (& wouldn't for many years!!) like way before i even knew i was a lesbian just listening to taylor sing "enchanted" alone in my bedroom wondering who the guy she was singing about was & if she ever saw him again (because i was #blessed to not have internet access and therefor not know it was the dude from owl city she was singing about alsdfhaklsdhfasdh) & i remember just pouring through the little lyric booklet & its pictures & intro & mostly it was just me & the music & this picture of her in a ballgown in my head & this made up but hopeful romantic idea of what love is and like S C R E A M

[felicitysmoak]

i know no one cares but please send some good vibes my way over receiving a registration code for the eras tour tomorrow 🤞🤞

[anditwentlikethis]

#feltthat

[ilostyou]

it’s so funny telling people that seeing pictures of taylor swift at nyu’s graduation is quite literally what made me realize that i want my own graduation and decided not to drop out of school because. that’s literally what happened

[terrifyingstories3]

rose loves dancing and has a natural talent for it. she gravitates more to the kind of dancing you’d find at a party or club where there’s music she can find her rhythm in, but she likes other forms of dance, too. she would enjoy slow dancing even though she doesn’t really have much formal training in it with the right partner, and can pick up on things fairly quickly. she thinks dancing is really fun and also just really sexy and there’s a confidence and grace about her when she dances that makes HER very sexy without needing to try. it’s very intuitive to her and speaks to her learning style (physical). she’s the whole moment ya’ll

[oscar-piastri]

my entire dash is listening to aylor swift and i’m vibing to dgm’s openings & endings 

[star-spangled-man]

taylor you really are a gift that just keeps on giving <3

[swept-you-out-again]

OK I’ve finished but I have no idea how I feel. Maroon was my immediate favourite and I loved midnight rain. But I am not sure about the rest